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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Who uses BASIC these days (for serious application writing)
Summary: "New" BASICs?
Message-ID: <1171@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 13:58:07 GMT
References: <11581@well.UUCP> <248@bixpb>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <248@bixpb> bensmith@bixpb.UUCP (Ben Smith) writes:
>There has been a real
>growth (resurgance?) of BASIC as a result of the facilities and
>structure available in the "New Basics."  I'll get references
>on this subject if anyone is interested.

One reference would be from a magazine that once called itself "The Small
Systems Journal."  I think it was either in April or October of 1984, and
contained articles on, among other BASICs, True BASIC and BASIC09.  True
BASIC was new at the time; BASIC09 had been around for a few years (I've
seen BASIC09 manuals copyrighted 1980) and had (and still has) most of the
features touted in a more recent BYTE article about the "New" BASICs.

	James Jones